(Solution) NR 305 Week 4 Assignment: Patient Teaching Plan

Purpose

To create a Patient Teaching Plan aimed at educating a specific patient population about a specific health topic. This plan will be used to develop a Visual Teaching Tool in a future assignment.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

  • CO 2: Recognize the influence that developmental stages have on physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual functioning. (PO #1)
  • CO 4: Identify teaching/learning needs from the health history of an individual. (PO #2)

Due Date

Patient Teaching Plan assignment is due Sunday of Week 4 at 11:59 MT.

Points

This assignment is worth 125 points.

Background Information

NR305 focuses on nursing assessment, and the identification of opportunities to prevent disease and improve health of patients. An important professional role for nurses is to provide teaching to patients based on knowledge deficits identified during assessment.

Prior to beginning this assignment, follow the link to read the article below. The information related to adult learning and barriers to understanding will be helpful when planning how to best educate your selected population.

Beagley, L. (2011). Educating patients: Understanding barriers, learning styles, and teaching techniques. Journal of Paranesthesia Nursing, 26(5), 331-337. permalink (Links to an external site.)

Directions

Please read all directions carefully before you begin.

  1. Click to download the Patient Teaching Plan Form (Links to an external site.).
    Type your answers directly into this Word document and submit. The use of correct terminology, grammar, and spelling is important! Any references and citations used should be written in APA format. Please utilize in-text citations when appropriate, and list all references in the space provided at the end of the worksheet.
  2. You are required to complete the form using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.). Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
  3. Health Topic: Decide WHAT you would like to teach. Describe in detail why this is an important topic for patient education. Use evidence from the textbook, lesson or an outside scholarly source to support your rationale.Select from the following health topics to complete your Patient Teaching Project:
    • Stress and Time Management
    • Self-Care (can choose a specific self-care activity)
    • Prevention of Hazards at Work
    • Bicycle Safety
    • Ergonomics (related to work, posture)
    • Skin Cancer Prevention
    • Healthy Eating
    • Exercise/Physical Activity
    • Suicide
    • Human Trafficking
    • Eating Disorders
    • Substance Abuse (Opioid, Alcohol, Nicotine)
    • Depression
    • Palliative Care/Hospice Care
  4. Population and Setting: Once you have selected a topic, you must decide WHO you will be teaching and WHERE the education will take place. (i.e., teaching a classroom of middle school students; teaching community members at a local health fair)
  5. Learning Barriers: Refer to the assigned article: Educating patients: Understanding barriers, learning styles, and teaching techniques for information related to learning barriers and other teaching considerations. Barriers might be cultural, physical, educational, or environmental. You may also want to consider the developmental stages of your selected population.Example:
    • The population in this community is known to have a low-literacy level, therefore clear pictures and graphics will be utilized to assist with understanding.
  6. Learning Objectives: Write three specific learning objectives your Visual Teaching Tool will address. Begin each objective with “At the end of this education, the learner will …” Use an action verb to finish the sentence (i.e., list, demonstrate, describe, define, identify).Example:
    • At the end of this education, the learner will be able to demonstrate the proper way to wear a bike helmet.
    • At the end of this education, the learner will be able to describe how to perform a breast self-exam.
    • At the end of this education, the learner will be able to list three benefits of regular physical activity.
  7. Evaluation: Write a paragraph describing how you could evaluate whether your visual teaching tool was successful and met the learning objectives. Consider the population’s abilities and the setting.

Solution:

Patient Teaching Plan

NOTE: Please do NOT remove any of the text on this form. Do NOT use any other form but this one. Fill it in and submit in its entirety to aid in its grading.

Your Name: Name                                                                       Date: date

Purpose:The purpose of this Patient Teaching Project is to develop a patient teaching plan and create a visual teaching tool aimed at promoting health and preventing disease for a specified patient population.

Directions:

  • This Teaching Plan is Part 1 of the Patient Teaching Project. You will use this Patient Teaching Plan to create a Visual Teaching Tool in Part 2 of this project.

 

 

Patient Teaching Plan
HEALTH TOPIC ANSWER
State the topic you have selected for your Teaching Project.

(Please select from the list provided in the Teaching Project guidelines located in Module 4.)

 

Describe in detail why this is an important topic for patient education. Use evidence from the textbook, lesson or an outside scholarly source to support your rationale.

 The topic chosen for the teaching project is teaching healthy eating to community members. Healthy eating is important to individual, family, and community health. This is an important topic for patient education as many people have limited knowledge and practice of healthy eating. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (2017), the current eating patterns by many people in the United States do not meet the Dietary Guidelines. Approximately the eating pattern for three-fourths of the U.S population is low in vegetables, fruits, oils, and dairy. More than 50% of the population satisfies or exceeds the recommended total protein and total grain intake but do not meet other subgroups of foods (HHS, 2017). More so, most Americans consume more than recommended saturated fats, added sugars, and sodium (President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition, 2017).One’s calorie consumption over time as compared to the body’s need for calorie is measured through body weight. In America, a high proportion of the population (more than 2/3 of all adults and almost 1/3 of all children and youth) is either overweight or obese, indicating that many people in the U.S consume excess calories, and thus the need to teach the community on healthy eating (DeSalvo, Olson, &Casavale, 2016).

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